Bah! Humbug! Day...

This week our challenge at Bah! Humbug! may have everyone bursting into song as the theme is to create something inspired by a Christmas Carol or Song.

I chose the song 'Frosty the Snowman', mainly because it gave me chance to use one of the oh so cute snowmen on a sheet of Penny Black Stickeroos that have found their way into my stash.  The border across the middle of my card was also part of the set and led to me using the purple and lime green colour theme on my card.  Quite an unusual combination, but it is growing on me - I think!  After using charms for our challenge last week another 'made with love' silver heart found it's way on to the tag again.  I do like these little hearts - they may be appearing on loads of stuff from now on.

As our theme could be either a carol or a song I decided that perhaps I should burst with enthusiasm (oooooooh that doesn't happen often) and do both so (bearing in mind that I'm knee deep in washing and ironing here) I also managed a very quick Kanban kit card to go with the carol 'We Three Kings'.  The card kit was in a 'goodie bag' I bought recently and I wouldn't have normally chose it as I find die cut decoupage so annoying for so many reasons, but I suppose it was okay to create this super fast card.

So if you would like to join in do pop over to Bah! Humbug! and take a look at the fab designs by my team mates Irene and Max.
OOOOOoh nearly forgot to mention that while I was away the team at Bah! Humbug! had their 15 mins (well okay perhaps ony 5 but still) of fame and were featured in  Let's Make Cards magazine. How exciting is that? Click on the link to check out the details.

Celebration Time...

Happy First Birthday to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge - one whole year of great challenges and stunning work by the Design Team.

Penny Black stamps and this particular challenge blog are my favourites so I certainly wasn't going to miss out on their birthday celebrations.

It's a very special week over there so do check it out if you haven't already. Gorgeous work by team (as always) and fantabulous prizes for some lucky people. So much candy you'll probably put on weight just looking!!!

My cards for their 'Celebrate' challenge are actually very simple ones made using Stickaroos that I had bought as a present some time back. They have been hiding in one of my many folders and came to light during yet another tidying and sorting session. Who is it that sneaks in when we turn our backs and messes all our craft stuff up? We really do need to find this person and put a stop to it.

Stickeroos are great when you want to make some quick cards. As I've volunteered to make some cards for my friend Cynthia to sell to raise money for Bob's Bikathon they were ideal. If you would like to find out more about this do visit Rainbow Lady's Challenge Blog.

Materials:

• Penny Black Stickaroos
• Nesties large circle plain and scalloped
• Cuttlebug Swiss Dots
• Letraset rub ons (these were a free sample and are the best rub ons ever - I really must check out what you can buy)
• gems and card from stash

To die for...

Seem to have had so little time or inspiration over the last few days and there are such really good challenges around too. This card is for the challenge on http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/ which was to use die cuts or punched shapes on your card. I have used a punched scalloped circle, die cut circle and die cut flowers to show off this cute Penny Black hedgehog which is another one from the sheet of stickers I was treated to recently.

I love Penny Black images and this one is really cute. The stamped greeting is a Studio G stamp from one of their brilliant mini sets.

Penny Black Hedgehog on acetate

The challenge on http://www.mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/ this week is to use either brads or eyelets. Having played with some gorgeous Penny Black stickers this afternoon with my daughter, Shelley, we both made cards using brads, acetate and glitter card stock.

For this card the cute hedgehog in a present sticker was stuck on to the acetate and then fastened to glitter card using flower shaped brads. This was then matted and layered on to silver and then more glitter card before finally being attached to the square acetate card.

The card was finished with silver border and corner peel offs. The corner peel offs are further embellished with gem stones by Hero Arts.